Socket

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Socket - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SOCK'ET, n.

1. The little hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.

2. Any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as the sockets of the teeth or of the eyes. his eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Gomphosis is the connection of a tooth to its socket.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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